• Question: What is your favourite molecule that you have ever made?

    Asked by anon-360750 on 30 Mar 2023.
    • Photo: Grace Roper

      Grace Roper answered on 30 Mar 2023:

      I made a cell active molecule by coupling another functional group to a molecule which isn’t cell active 🙂

    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 30 Mar 2023:

      I did my PhD on the nitric oxide (NO) molecule. I still think it is quite a cool molecule as it is one of the few free radicals you can buy in a bottle.

    • Photo: Graeme Dykes

      Graeme Dykes answered on 30 Mar 2023:

      I have made so many molecules over the years. Some were easier to make than others.
      I made a nice crystalline compound as part of my PhD. I have have worked on things which were incredibly red in colour.
      Any molecule which is strongly active against my target enzyme or protein, is selective, stable, water soluble, no side effects and easy to make. A drug, in fact!

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